Congressman Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to halt deportations of immigrants without criminal records who have been detained under Alabama law HB 56 while the courts consider the Department of Justice's suit to declare the law unconstitutional. He also asked DHS to...
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You know what's a pretty good sign that you're a racist? When a federal judge goes out of his way to explicitly call you out for being racist. Such was the experience of Alabama State Senator Scott Beason last week when U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson decided to...
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As the Republican presidential candidates continue to bash immigrants at every opportunity, crops are rotting in the fields across the country. That's especially true in state's that have passed harsh anti-immigrant laws, like Alabama and Georgia. Timothy Egan at The New York Times provides some perspective in a column,...
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U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., one of the most vocal advocates for immigrant rights in Congress, will be in Alabama Saturday joining protests against the state's immigration law.
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It was just another schoolyard basketball game until a group of Hispanic seventh-graders defeated a group of boys from Alabama. The reaction was immediate, according to the Mexican mother of one of the winners, and rooted in the state's new law on illegal immigration.
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Alabama's governor is confident he did the right thing four months ago by signing a strict law that catapulted the state to the forefront of America's debate about illegal immigrants. But he is declining most interviews about it because he wants his administration to be remembered for other issues.
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Alabama farmers are facing a labor crisis because of the state's new immigration law as both legal and undocumented migrant workers have fled the state since the strict new rules went into effect last month.
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Ivan Segura, a U.S. citizen who was born in Mexico, shakes his head when the Republican presidential candidates talk about illegal immigration. "They're not talking about what to do about those who are already here," said Segura, who works as an advocate for immigrants in South Carolina.
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Did you see what U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson called state Sen. Scott Beason? Yeah. A racist. In an order issued Thursday, Thompson said both Beason, R-Gardendale, and former Rep. Benjamin Lewis of Dothan, key prosecution witnesses in the bribes-for-bingo trial this summer, were not credible because they were...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) is visiting Alabama for a series of events on Saturday, which will end with a rally in Fair Park Arena at 4 PM. Rep. Gutierrez has long championed the issue of immigration reform, and was even arrested in 2010 and 2011 while protesting deportations under...
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